The term is rather loosely applied to a considerable range of products, including benzine and ligroin.

She had to find Ligroin, a solvent available only at dispensing chemists' shops, to use as fuel.

Instead of petrol, early engines were fuelled with ligroin, a cleaning solvent sold at chemists.

She was supplied with ligroin by the apothecary Willi Ockel.

The first motor car, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, used ligroin as a fuel.

The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.

The Otto Cycle engine was eventually adopted to run on Ligroin and eventually gasoline, and many gases.

She had to find ligroin as a fuel; this was available only at apothecary shops, so she stopped in Wiesloch at the city pharmacy to purchase the fuel.

Sometimes the specialty naphthas are called petroleum ether, petroleum spirits, mineral spirits, paraffin, benzine, hexanes, ligroin, white oil or white gas, painters naphtha, refined solvent naphtha and Varnish makers' & painters' naphtha (VM&P) .

Petroleum ether, also known as benzine, VM&P naphtha (varnish makers' & painters'), petroleum naphtha, naphtha ASTM, petroleum spirits, X4 or ligroin, is a group of various volatile, highly flammable, liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as nonpolar solvents.